Runwell Hospital

[anglessaxonsjutes]

Looking for ideas relating to patient admission records for Runwell Hospital, Wickford. My great aunt was a patient and death certificate dated 6-2-1977 shows inquest details and accidental death.
Would admission records be held at Essex Record Office, National Archive or the Wellcome Institute?
I gather that Runwell is due for closure in 2008.

[Diblet]

I suspect that even if you wrote direct to the hospital they wouldn't tell you anything. The records are too modern and would still fall into some sort of "closure" period of time.

[Barking]

Did not work at Runwell Hospital, but at another Hospital in another part of country,  and our records were kept for five years , on the shelves of Records Office, then went into archives.

Mo

[m.mcmillan]

my mother was in runwell. i believe they do keep records. you can find out from doctors records of the person who admitted her. the mental health services should be able to help or social services.

mel